Dale Jarvis interviewing Grace Shears regarding Bonfire Night in Robinsons, Newfoundland. The informant discusses bonfires, the people involved in the fire, the materials burned, and the story of Guy Fawkes.

Dale Jarvis interviewing Joyce Quilty regarding Bonfire Night in Lethbridge, Newfoundland. The informant discusses who was involved in the bonfire, collecting material to burn, where the fire was held, the number of fires in the community, the...

Dale Jarvis interviewing Carl Sooley regarding Bonfire Night in Heart's Delight, Newfoundland. The informant sings and discusses a song about a historic bonfire in Heart's Delight when a Schooner was burned. The informant also discusses gathering...

Dale Jarvis interviewing Carolyn Parsons regarding Bonfire Night in Change Islands, Newfoundland. The informant discusses various bonfires in her community, gathering material to burn, competitions to have the biggest bonfire, who would tend the...

Nichole Mercer interviewing Arthur and Eugene Mercer regarding Bonfire Night in Shearstown, Newfoundland. The informants discuss who participated, the material burned, how the material was collected, how long the fire would last, and why people...

A panel discussion regarding world fire traditions. Phillip Hiscock discusses Newfoundland fire traditions, including the history of bonfire night and how it is celebrated. Ebrahim Monajemi discusses fire traditions in Iran, including his boyhood...

Dale Jarvis interviews Robin Martin, Military Animation Specialist, Parks Canada, regarding Bonfire Night. The informant discusses the history of Guy Fawkes Night, as well as the celebration of the event in Newfoundland.

Noreen MacLennan interviewed by Dale Jarvis on 10 November 2010 at her home in St. John's, Newfoundland. MacLennan talks about the fireball parade tradition in her home town of Stonehaven, Scotland, which took every year as part of Hogmanay, the...

Robert Smith interviewing Corine Brown regarding Bonfire Night in the Eastport, Newfoundland area. The informant discusses the history of Guy Fawkes, how teenagers and older people would attend different fires, making a Guy Fawkes figure to burn,...

Dale Jarvis interviews Robert "Bob" Balsom in his house in Heart's Content, Newfoundland, on 17 November 2010 on the subject of Bonfire Night. Balsom describes where his family is from; how Bonfire Night was celebrated; how boughs were cut, piled...

Mel Squarey interviews Dennis Flynn in St. John's, Newfoundland, 23 November, 2010. Flynn explains Bonfire Night traditions in and around Colliers, Newfoundland, who participated in Bonfire Night, what materials were burned, and his grandmother's...

Dale Jarvis interviews Juanita Keel-Ryan of Bailey's Cove, Bonavista in St. John's on December 15, 2010. Keel-Ryan talks about her bonfire night memories; how her father would collect and dry potato stalks from the garden from September onwards;...